Chapter 5 "What Is at the Center of the Universe?" Quiz

A geocentric model of the universe is the idea that...

• plants and animals should not be harmed by people

• the earth is the center of things, and the sun revolves around it

• there are no other planets besides the earth

• the sun is the center of things, and the earth revolves around it

Who seems to have started the idea that the earth was the center of universe?

• the Catholic Church

• the Romans

• the ancient Greeks

• Martin Luther and Frederick III

What did Copernicus determine after studying the movements of the planets and stars in the early 1500s?

• That the Sun is at the center of the universe

• That the Earth is flat

• That the Moon is made of cheese

• That the stars do not move

Why was Copernicus quiet about what he discovered?

• He was certain he was wrong.

• He wanted to find a way to make money off of his idea.

• He became too busy learning how to paint and create art.

• He needed more evidence, and he didn’t want to displease the Church.

What subject did Johannes Kepler use to help support Copernicus’s heliocentric model?

• math

• history

• economics

• botany

What made Galileo interested in studying things out in space?

• a letter he received from the pope in Rome

• the invention of the telescope

• a beautiful Greek poem he found about the moon

• the invention of the printing press

Why didn’t Galileo’s discoveries challenge his belief in the Catholic Church?

• He never believed in the Catholic Church to begin with.

• His wife and friends told him not to think about his beliefs.

• He thought his discoveries were probably wrong.

• He believed science and religion answered different questions.

The court of the Catholic Church decided in 1615 that Galileo's support of heliocentrism was:

• In agreement with Church doctrine

• Heretical and contrary to Church doctrine

• Unimportant to the Church

• Fully supported by the Pope

When did the Church began to change its ideas about the movement of the planets and the sun?

• near the end the 1600s

• around the middle of the 1700s

• near the end of the 1800s

• around the beginning of the 1900s